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CAN SOFT DRINK TAXES REDUCE POPULATION WEIGHT?

Overview of attention for article published in Contemporary Economic Policy, January 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 914)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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Article details
Title
CAN SOFT DRINK TAXES REDUCE POPULATION WEIGHT?
Published in
Contemporary Economic Policy, January 2010
DOI 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2009.00182.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 2%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 254 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 58 22%
Student > Bachelor 50 19%
Researcher 33 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 10%
Other 11 4%
Other 37 14%
Unknown 48 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 48 18%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 39 15%
Social Sciences 31 12%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 16 6%
Other 47 18%
Unknown 64 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 157. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 December 2025.
All research outputs
#330,682
of 34,454,098 outputs
Outputs from Contemporary Economic Policy
#12
of 914 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,076
of 232,342 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Contemporary Economic Policy
#3
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,454,098 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 914 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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